[ Transcript Available ] Integrating UX into an Agile workflow has historically been a bit of a challenge. This could be due to a general lack of communication with the development team, or not feeling like the proper time or value is given to UX within the organization. Through her research, Aviva Rosenstein discovered that many problems people were having are commonplace. Additionally, she found that others had actually already worked out solutions to some of these. In her virtual seminar, Making UX Work with Agile Scrum Teams, Aviva discusses the position of UX on Agile teams and some of the problems they face. There were a bunch of great questions from the audience during the live seminar and Aviva joins Adam Churchill to answer some of those in this podcast. How do you manage the change from Waterfall to Agile? Are requirements fairly well defined before the Agile process? If the designers are working sprints ahead, then how much time are they also spending on the current sprint? Where do research and testing fit into the Agile process? Can you give some examples of UX tasks that are estimated? What are some best practices for documenting design in this process? What’s the development team’s role in UX design? How do you handle technology limits in UX design? Are there UX success measures for new products? Can a dedicated UX design team work successfully with product development teams in this scrum environment? Recorded: September, 2014 [ Subscribe to our podcast via ?This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast applications.] Full Transcript. Adam Churchill: Welcome,...

In this week’s UIEtips, Ben Callahan dissects the design process to explore which tools are the most helpful for different parts of the process. Ben was one of our top speakers at this year’s UX Immersion Conference, and he’s also presenting our next virtual seminar on June 5, Responsive Workflows: Because There’s No Such Thing as a Perfect Process. Here’s an excerpt from the article: In the past few years, we’ve recognized the danger in jumping headfirst into full-comp design before we really understand the design direction. Other disciplines have recognized this for a long time-think mood boards in branding-and taken steps to ramp up their design effort. The goal here is to establish the basic building blocks we’ll use in the rest of the design process: things like color, type, texture, illustration style, photography treatment, iconography. Once these are established, the success rate for the rest of the process is greatly increased. There are a number of ways to do this on the web; let’s look at a few. Read part one of the two part article: Dissecting Design. How does your team handle design? Leave us a note...

If you’ve been thinking about attending the User Interface 19 Conference in Boston, October 27-29, now is the time to register. Secure the lowest price of $1,395 for the full conference when you register by May 15, 2014. The 8 workshops at UI19 will help you understand your users’ needs and create experiences that engage and delight. Leave the conference ready to spark effective and productive change within your organization. Mobile-centric Design Thinking Luke Wroblewski Communicating Design Leah Buley Multi-channel Service Design Marc Stickdorn Content & the Design Process Steph Hay Scenarios for Intuitive Design Kim Goodwin Effective Web Typography Tim Brown Microinteractions Dan Saffer Presenting Data Well Stephen Anderson Reserve your spot and save money Register by May 15 and get the lowest price of...

Take advantage of the $1,395 Rate – Register by May 15 Save money and guarantee your spot in the workshops of your choice. Register for the User Interface 19 Conference, October 27–29, in Boston at the lowest rate of $1,395 by May 15. “Both the workshops and speeches were extremely useful and inspiring. The whole experience was beyond my (high) expectations!” - Juha Rouvinen Your UI19 Registration Includes: Immediate access to UIE’s All You Can Learn for one year. This resource includes virtual seminars from many of the UI19 workshop leaders plus past conference recordings Two daylong workshops and a day of featured talks from the workshop presenters Complete conference materials from all the workshops and talks Access to video recordings of the featured talks through All You Can Learn A designer’s toolkit to help you create and communicate your design ideas Save your spot, guarantee your workshops, and get the lowest price when you sign-up by May 15. Register...

Yup, that’s right, on June 26th UX Thursday will return to Detroit with a bevy of UX luminaries. And you can join them all for just $99 bucks! (Your cell phone bill is higher than that, right?) Keynotes will include Jared Spool and Dana Chisnell from UsabilityWorks and will be held at the city’s iconic Gem Theater. As always, there will be 6 other top local speakers there to share case studies of real-world UX projects, so start getting excited NOW! Stay tuned for more information on the amazing speakers and presentations we’ve got in store for you. You can also check out this video of last year’s show highlights. We hope to see you there but these events always sell out quickly, so don’t wait to sign...

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